Czerwonogród

This article is about the ghost town. For the modern town, see Chervonohrad.

Chervonohorod or Chervone (until 1970 Ukrainian: Червоне, formerly Ukrainian: Червоногород, Polish: Czerwonogród), meaning "Red Town" (from the color of the earth), is a former town in Zalishchyky Raion, Ternopil Oblast of Ukraine, that was part of the municipal district of Nyrkiv (Ни́рків).

The ruins of Chervonohorod Castle.

It was chartered in 1434 and was the seat of a powiat in the Podole Voivodeship. During the 19th century Chervonohorod declined in importance, and its population was reduced to 500 by the time of the September Campaign (1939).

The local castle was built in the early 17th century as a seat of the Daniłowicz magnate family. Prince Poniński acquired the ruined castle from the Habsburgs in 1778 and had it demolished.^[1] A new princely residence was erected to replace it. The prince and his family were interred in the family vault, which boasted a relief commissioned from Bertel Thorvaldsen. Ukrainian nationalist civilians during World War 2 exterminated the ethnic Polish population and removed Czerwonogród from the map. Later, Soviets dismantled the Poniński-Lubomirski palace (apart from the two towers) and eventually abolished the locality.

See also

• Church of the Assumption, Chervonohorod

External links

• Media related to Chervonohorod (Ukraine) at Wikimedia Commons